Thread by @17cShyteposter

This is the Big Fat Skeleton Key to understanding nearly everything around us. This culture's basic ideological framework is that everything that exists is a result of nurture and environment (including "socio-economic status")

In practice, it turns out to mean almost nothing.

https://twitter.com/peligrietzer/status/1449484683222335491

This is shocking and upsetting in many ways, because a culture that promises everything is the result of nurture means that you can always wildly improve your lot in life—and especially your children's—by adhering to the scientifically-approved nurture, environment, and policies

But the fact is we're all limited, in many ways, and to an immense variance between us all, from the moment we are conceived

Yet I find this immensely liberating, in the *real* sense of the word. For it relieves everyone of being in constant competition with everyone, for life

If you believe that everything is nurture/environment, then you have to be immersed in—or providing—the best possible environment *for your entire existence.*

Or else you, or your kids, are being left behind. As everyone else races ahead

If, though, your life, and those of your kids, is going to largely be the result of your nature, or their nature,

Then the key is simply understanding what your specific nature is. Or the specific nature of your kids. And exploring *that*, as well as you can.

That is actual freedom. You're no longer in a false competition with the entire world (which is insane, and the undeniable root of almost all modern neuroses and anxieties)

You're only in competition with what you were born with, and how to work with it to most fulfill it